Archive for 'annotation'
Videolyzing Pharmaceutical Ads
There are just two countries in the world where Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) advertising is allowed for pharmaceuticals: the US and New Zealand. The ostensible motivation? To educate consumers, to raise awareness of medical conditions, to get people talking to their doctors, or to reduce the stigma associated with certain conditions (e.g. Viagra)
Since the laws changed back [...]
Posted: March 3rd, 2009 under advertising, annotation, fact-checking, information quality, journalism, pharmaceutical, video annotation.
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Fact Checking Source Contextualization
I ran across this round-up of some of the most prominent Political Fact Checking sites online including non-partisan FactCheck, Politifact, and Washington Post Fact Checker Blog, as well as the partisan counter-parts: Newsbusters and MediaMatters. One of my criticisms of such sites is that oftentimes the fact-checking is decontextualized from the orginal document, especially for [...]
Posted: January 4th, 2009 under annotation, computational journalism, fact-checking, interfaces.
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Music Recommendation & HerdIt
This week I had the chance to attend a tutorial at the ACM Conference on Multimedia on Music Recommender Systems presented by Oscar Celma. It was a very informative talk, touching on some of the foundational issues in music recommenders: relevancy, serendipity, transparency, and context. There was also some discussion of the tradeoffs between content [...]
Posted: October 30th, 2008 under annotation, games.
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Videolyzer Alpha Online
Version 0.0.0.1 of Videolyzer is now online! Videolyzer is a tool designed for journalists and bloggers to be able to collaboratively assess the information quality of a video, including its transcript. Information quality involves things like credibility, validity, and comprehensivness among other things. Videolyzer was designed to support the analysis, collection, and sharing of criticisms [...]
Posted: October 19th, 2008 under annotation, citizen journalism, collaborative, collectivism, computational journalism, information quality, journalism, video, video annotation, video interfaces, video tagging.
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Comment Press – Paragraph level comments
Comment Press is a Wordpress plugin that allows for paragraph level commenting of texts and pages on the blog. Produced by the Institute for the Future of the Book, Comment Press is meant to facilitate collaboration around longer, more complex texts which require a finer degree of granularity in annotation and commenting.
The interface for comment [...]
Posted: August 1st, 2007 under annotation, blogging.
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Timed Comments in Video
There’s a lot of interest from new video startups in making video into a first class web 2.0 citizen by bringing tagging, commenting, and responses to videos at a sub-video level of granularity. While the old skool video sites like YouTube, Revver, Metacafe, Magnify etc. let you add tags and comments to a video, the [...]
Posted: July 19th, 2007 under Uncategorized, annotation, interfaces, tagging, video.
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